Surinder Guru

Lecturer in Social Work

Applied Social Studies

Contact details

School of Social Policy, IASSMuirhead Tower, Room 844University of BirminghamEdgbastonBirminghamB15 2TT, United Kingdom

About

Surinder Guru is a Lecturer on the Social Work course at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy.

Teaching

Surinder teachers both undergraduate and postgraduate:

Sociology and social work

Citizenship and diversity

International social work perspectives

Gender and migration

Research

Her research interests focus primarily on issues of race and gender, specifically exploring the role and position of South Asian women within the family and their experiences of domestic violence, divorce and the transmission of femininity. Her current research examines the impact of securitization upon Muslim families whose members are detained and convicted under the counter-terrorism legislation.

She has supervised UK and international research students whose work has included migration, ethnicity, gender and mental health, bereavement and is currently working with students examining the role of women in indigenous tribal groups, Islamophobia and political conflict.